Astronomy and Astrophysics

COD Student Spends Summer Working on IceCube Neutrino Project College of DuPage student Robert Zill of Burr Ridge is spending his summer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls working on IceCube, the Antarctic-based neutrino cosmology experiment. IceCube, a particle detector telescope located at the South Pole, records interactions of nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos. The telescope searches for dark matter that can reveal the physical processes associated with the origins of the highest energy particles. Zill's internship is going so well that he has already been selected as a backup candidate to travel to the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica and the...

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COD Student Spends Summer Working on IceCube Neutrino Project
College of DuPage student Robert Zill of Burr Ridge is spending his summer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls working on IceCube, the Antarctic-based neutrino cosmology experiment....

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View the sky through powerful telescopes and enjoy a variety of educational activities on Astronomy Day, being held on Saturday, April 25 at the College of Lake County. All the day's activities are free and open to the public of all ages.Activities are...

Grayslake, IL (March 30, 2015) The wisdom of SOFIA will be shared with science teachers at a free workshop at the College of Lake County scheduled in conjunction with Lake County Astronomy Day on April 25. NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors Marcella...

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